EDITORIAL

John A. Calabrese
(Dr. John Calabrese teaches international relations at American University in Washington, DC. He is the book review editor of The Middle East Journal and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute (MEI). He previously served as director of MEI's Middle East-Asia Project (MAP).

Copyright: @ 2024 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 23 November 2024

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On October 28, NATO confirmed that North Korean troops have been deployed to Kursk, the Russian region that is partly controlled by Ukraine. This deepening military cooperation between Russia and North Korea raises the stakes, threatening to escalate tensions on the Korean Peninsula while also complicating the already precarious battlefield conditions in Europe.... Read more

Dimitrios Tsailas (ret) Admiral)
(He has taught for many years, operational planning, strategy, and security, to senior officers at the Supreme Joint War College. He is a member and researcher of the Institute for National and International Security)

Copyright: @ 2024 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 10 November 2024

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The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), proposed at the G20 meeting in New Delhi in 2023, was indeed a significant initiative aimed at creating a "geo-economic corridor" linking India with the Middle East and Europe. However, the concept isn't entirely new, echoing historical precedents like the British East India Company, which similarly used trade routes to shape geopolitics and control vast regions of the world.... Read more

(Mônica H. P. Aguiar. PhD in Political Sciences/International Relations by IUPERJ/UCAM (2016). Executive Coordinator at Núcleo de Estudos Avançados (NEA) of Instituto de Estudos Estratégicos (INEST/ Universidade Federal Fluminense).

Copyright: @ 2024 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 21 October 2024

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In this article, we will examine the paradigms shaping Brazilian foreign policy from the time Brazil became a republic at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. We understand that a country’s foreign policy is influenced by its historical and geopolitical conditions, which leads to a thread of continuity over time, although the specifics of the policy may alter. While not formally specified, it is generally accepted that the central focus of Brazilian foreign policy is to serve national economic development. ... Read more

Prof. Dr. Ilias Iliopoulos had long been a Professor of the Hellenic Naval War College, the Hellenic National Defence College and the American College of Greece (Deree); he currently teaches at the Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies of the University of Athens.

Copyright: @ 2024 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 7 October 2024

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The mysterious and most tragic aviation incident of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 of March 8, 2014, in which an airliner carrying 239 people suddenly disappeared during its journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, brought attention to security deficiencies at airports and caused a great concern worldwide..... Read more

Glen Segell

(Professor, NATO-EU Strategy Group, Fellow of Royal Geographical Society, member of the Executive Committee of the Western Galilee College, was educated to a Doctor of Philosophy (Oxford), and holds the rank of Brigadier-General (Reserves).

Copyright: @ 2024 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 2 October 2024

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After the attacks by Hamas on Israel’s southern border on 7 October 2023, Hezbollah in Lebanon on Israeli’s northern border expressed its support for Hamas. Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, began firing rockets into Israeli territories such as Shebaa Farms and the Golan Heights on 8 October. This escalation has led to increased tensions and conflict along the Israel-Lebanon border with wider regional and global consequences. ... Read more

John M Nomikos
(RIEAS Director, Athens, Greece)

Copyright@2024 The Asian Chronicle, India – posted at RIEAS on 21 September 2024

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In 18 March 2015, I travelled to Jaipur, India to participate in an international conference on “Counterterrorism” organized by the Indian Foundation and I delivered an analysis on “illegal Migration, Organized Crime and Human Trafficking in Greece”. During the conference, I created a network with Indian academicians, military, law -enforcement and security professionals that assisted me to comprehend the idiosyncrasies of the security environment regarding the complexities of the geoeconomic and geopolitical Indian military, security and political affairs.

The Monograph is written in three languages: English, Greek and Hindi.  Read more